THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL AAAI CONFERENCE ON WEBLOGS AND SOCIAL MEDIA

ICWSM 2014 is now over, next year will be held in Oxford. The main conference dates are May 27-29, 2015, and the tutorials and workshops will be on May 26, 2015.

Please note that the conference proceedings are available at the AAAI Website.

The International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) is a forum for researchers in computer science and social science to come together to share knowledge, discuss ideas, exchange information, and learn about cutting-edge research in diverse fields with the common theme of online social media. This overall theme includes research in new perspectives in social theories, as well as computational algorithms for analyzing social media. ICWSM is a singularly fitting venue for research that blends social science and computational approaches to answer important and challenging questions about human social behavior through social media while advancing computational tools for vast and unstructured data.

ICWSM, now in its eighth year, has become one of the premier venues for computational social science, and previous years of ICWSM have featured papers, posters, and demos that draw upon network science, machine learning, computational linguistics, sociology, communication, and political science. The uniqueness of the venue and the quality of submissions have contributed to a fast growth of the conference and a competitive acceptance rate of 20% for full-length research papers published in the proceedings by the Association for the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

For ICWSM-14, in addition to the usual program of contributed technical talks, posters and invited presentations, the main conference will include a selection of keynote talks from prominent social scientists and technologists. Building on successes in previous years, ICWSM-14 will also hold a day of workshops and tutorials in addition to the main conference.

Disciplines

Computational approaches to social media research including

Natural language processing

Text / data mining

Machine learning

Image / multimedia processing

Graphics and visualization

Distributed computing

Graph theory

Human-computer interaction

Social science approaches to social media research including

Psychology

Sociology and social network analysis

Communication

Political science

Economics

Anthropology

Media studies and journalism

Interdisciplinary approaches to social media research combining computational algorithms and social science methodologies

Media

Weblogs (posts, comments, and/or social shares)

Social networking sites (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn)

Microblogs (e.g., Twitter, Tumblr)

Wiki-based knowledge sharing sites (e.g., Wikipedia)

Social news sites and websites of news media (e.g., Huffington Post)

Forums, mailing lists, newsgroups

Community media sites (e.g., YouTube, Flickr, Instagram)

Social Q & A sites (e.g., Quora, Yahoo Answers)

User reviews (e.g., Yelp, Amazon.com)

Social curation sites (e.g., Reddit, Pinterest)

Location-based social networks (e.g., Foursquare)

Topics Include

Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media

Analysis of the relationship between social media and mainstream media

Qualitative and quantitative studies of social media

Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors

Ranking/relevance of blogs and microblogs; web page ranking based on weblogs